Shock-loader.



PATENTED FEB. 19, 192w.

A. PFUND.

SHOCK LOADBR. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 9, 1901. RENEWED JULY 2a. 1906.

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PATENTED FEB. 19; 1907.

A. PFUND.

SHOCK LOADER. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 9, 1901. RENEWED JULY 28, 1906.

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[/1 vefifar ADOLPH PFUND, OF BELVIDERE, lLLlNOIS.

SHOCK-LOADER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. -19, 1907.

. Application filed August 9, 1901. Renewed July 28,1906. Serial No. 328,244.

Be it known that l, AnoLrn PFUND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Belvidere, in the county ofBoone, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Shock-Loaders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a combined shock-loader and extension-wagon for conveying corn, hay, or grain from the field to the barn, stack, or machine used in its treatment.

The machine is especially designed for loading corn from. a shock the stalks of which are crossed and tied together at their upper ends by means of a corn-harvesting machine of novel construction of my invention, wherein the shocks are unloaded from the said machine with their butts spread apart, as herein shown, and in such manner that a divider or pilot may be easily passed through the opening in the middle and at the base of the shock with the butt-ends below the band straddling the pilot and then elevated and conducted to a ridge-frame and spread more or less horizontally to a fixed section having horizontal and longitudinal frame-pieces which telescope with similar pieces of an extension-frame comprising the rear section or sections of a wagon, the latter being gradually filled with the stalks, shocks of corn, hay, or grain until the wagon is filled sufficiently to provide a full load.

My invention consists in certain features, combinations, and arrangements of parts hereinafter particularly described and claimed, with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shockloader and wagon with the extension-section of the wagon telescoped into the fixed sec tion of the loader. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the extension-section of the wagon, showing the same removed from the loader. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the pilot, showing the same lifting the shock. Fig. 4 is a detail view, partly in section, of the slidably-secured wheels on the reach.

The main frame A has a rectangular bed a, the longitudinal members a of which are connected at the ends and middle by transverse angular posts A A A, connected. in pairs, having vertical sections a at the middle and diagonal sections a at the sides, which when bolted together and to the bed a,

as at (1 (1' a", provide a vertical center section and sloping side sections conforming to the contour and extending from the end abutment of the pilot B near the ground to an elevated ridge of more or less pitch, appreaching, if desired, nearly to the horizontal, thus providing an clevating-section C at the rear of the pilot and also providing a similar fixed section D, the longitudinal members of which extend lmrizontally at the rear of the elevating-section (l, which is adapted to receive and telescope with the corresponding horizontal members of an extension-frame of the rear section E of the wagon.

The wagon extension-section E is sup ported at its rear end upon wheels M M and consists of a rectangular base 6, with angular posts E E corresponding with the fixed section D, and has longitudinal strips e e 0 of which the strips 6 e slide along the inner side of the strips (1 in the same plane to thus provide an unbroken extension-surface over which the stalks or grain may be moved rearwardly to the rear section of the wagon until the latter is filled and then allowed to be gradually withdrawn until the wagon is loaded to its full capacity.

The pilot B consists of a center ridge-plate or divider b, which extends from the point I) to the back abutment b and two elevating side sections 1) If, shaped in the manner of the in oldboards of a lister-plow or snow-plow, the divider I) being designed to penetrate the shock and held it from falling over while the elevating side sections pass beneaththe buttends of the stalks and lift them up to the carrier-chains (7 supported in transverse shafts C C on the elevating-section C, by means of which the butt-ends of the shocks are carried back to the fixed section D of the wagon. The vertical posts A A A of the wagon support sprocket wheels F, over which a cha n G is carried, having lingers g thereon to engage with the crossed and bound middle portion h of the shock H and carry it rearwardly to the fixed section D, while the butts are carried at an equal speed by the carrier-chains C C, as above described. Bolts C and g, respectively, carried upon pulleys 7r k secured to the front axle K, serve to drive the chains U, C, and G, and the ends of the axle are secured to and supported upon the wheels L IJ at the front end of the fixed section of the wagon-frame and are journaled upon the said frame in a suitable manner. The rear end of said frame is supported upon suitable wheels M M.

The forward end of the extension-section E of the wagon is supported on the main frame A and the wheels P slidably secured to the reach q. At each side of the main frame A at its forward end is provided a draft-bar O, which extends from each side and which permits a draft-animal to be attached on each side the device to propel the same. A swingletree X is secured on the rear end of the extension-section and permits a horse to be attached thereto to draw the same away with its load of shocks, another extensionframe being inserted in the meanwhile.

The pilot B has a casterwheel N, supported in bearings n in the abutment end thereof between the side sections b 5 and is hinged at b to hinge-plates b, projecting from the forward end of the platform. Said pilot is also provided on its sides with knife edges 1), adapted to sever the butts of the stocks should the same remain fast in the ground.

The shock H is left standing in the field when delivered from my improved corn-har vester in the form and manner shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. This mode of forming a shock is best accomplished by overlapping the tops of the stalks in equal quantities and then tying them together, the butts being then adapted to turn down and stand in a ridge or peak with a space between the butts through which a beam or pilot may be passed to elevate the shock upon the wagon or carrier to be thereby conveyed to the barn, stack, or rack or machine and deposited either in the ridge fold or in the flat, as may be required.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a shock loader and carrier the combination with a carrier-platform having a ridge-shaped elevatingection a similarlyshaped fixed section and a pilot at the forward end of the frame adapted to spread the shock and hold it to straddle the ridge of the carrier-platform.

2. In a shock loader and carrier the combination with a carrier-platform, of a pilot divider and elevator hinged to the forward end i thereof and adapted to be tilted to raise and lower the point of the pilot from the ground substantially as described.

3. In a shock loader and carrier the combination with a carrier-platform of a pilot hinged to the forward end thereof and a supporting-wheel at the rear end of the pilot substantially as described.

4. In a shock loader and carrier the combination with a carrier-platform and wheelsupports of a pilot-divider at the forward end thereof an elevating and carrier section comprising a center ridge forming a rear extension of the pilot and a carrier-belt and pulleys supported upon the apex of the ridge and driven from the wheel for carrying the material rearwardly upon the ridge substantially as described.

5. In a shock loader and carrier the combination With a carrier-platform having a center ridge extending longitudinally thereof, a pilot at the forward end of the platform, a carrierbelt and pulleys at the apex of the ridge and a carrier belt or belts supported upon each side of the ridge and extending upwardly and rearwardly from the rear end of the pilot substantially as described.

6. In a shock loader and carrier, the com bination with a carrier and platform having wheel-supports and having a center ridge extending longitudinally thereof, a carrier and elevating section, at the forward end of the platform, a fixed carrier-section at the rear end of the platform and an extension wagon-section having a wheel-support and adapted to telescope with the fixed carrierseczion substamially as described.

7. In a shock loader and carrierthe combination with a carrier-frame, of a pilot-divider hinged at the forward end thereof and provided at each side with a cutting-blade.

8. In a shock loader and carrier, the com bination with a carrier-frame, of a pilot-divider hinged at the forward end thereof, knives on said divider, an elevator on the carrier-frame and a section telescoping with the rear end of said frame adapted to be removed therefrom.

ADOLPH PFUND.

Witnesses:

CABLE H. SOHAFER, M. E. NEWELL. 

